Change the Title of Yahoo Messenger

Submitted by Srikanth on Sunday, 10 August 200820 Comments

Here’s how you change the title text that appears at the top of the Messenger window. By default, this is “Yahoo! Messenger”, followed by your status. Simply edit the ymsgr.ini file, which you will find in the same folder as the Messenger program, in your Program Files folder. Locate the file and open it in Notepad. Then, at the end, add the following:

[APP TITLE]
caption=YOUR TEXT

Here, “YOUR TEXT” is whatever you want in the title bar. Save the file and close Messenger. When you restart it you will see your text in the title bar.

20 Comments »

MumuMare said:

Nice! I have 2 questions on my agenda:

1) Are there any other tags I can add?

2) I want to make a joke on a friend of mine and send him a .mp3 file in which I will attach a self-installing party that will copy the ymsgr.ini by itself at the right address on the computer (search >> on found >> replace + rename old file in ymsgr.ini.bak). And change all kind of stuff in his Yahoo client

The problem is that I have to program that (I know C, C++, C# and Delphi), but I don’t know how to attach it to an .mp3 (music file or image file, or any other common ‘user-sharing stuff’) and selfinstal without a user interface

Can you help me with this one? If so, we’ll exchange mails and play with programing. What do you say?

- 17 September 2008 at 12:53 AM

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- 19 December 2008 at 12:34 PM

manni said:

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- 2 January 2009 at 12:56 AM

mani said:

sorry but i could not find the ymsgr.ini file in d yahoo msngr folder

- 17 January 2009 at 7:41 PM

arif said:

hi i want to the site of hacking. which can provide the software .
have you any site so please provide me . i am very interested .

- 12 February 2009 at 8:33 PM

mohammad ishaq said:

sorry but i could not find the ymsgr.ini file in d yahoo msngr folder

- 24 March 2009 at 4:11 PM

mohammad ishaq said:

i also do’t know how to hack ip address

- 24 March 2009 at 4:12 PM

pareshan hacker said:

This trick worked only on older yahoo! messengers and not on recent versions bcoz they don’t have any file in the messenger folder named ymsgr.ini however this file used to appear in older versions.

- 24 March 2009 at 11:57 PM

omoyapayaskki said:

love this site very much,but i need a solution to hacking ip addressses

- 6 April 2009 at 11:32 PM

davraj said:

sorry but i could not find the ymsgr.ini file in d yahoo msngr folder.
onely i goat is was ymsgipdl.ini

- 10 June 2009 at 12:31 AM

EJ said:

cant find any ymsgr.ini file T_T

- 22 September 2009 at 2:34 PM

Lovecracker said:

sorry but i could not find the ymsgr.ini file in d yahoo msngr folder

- 14 January 2010 at 5:25 PM

Security-Min said:

Good Job Man
Keep it Up

- 9 February 2010 at 3:24 AM

No NO said:

No sir not working plz check it and post again

- 23 June 2010 at 10:30 AM

raz said:

no more ymsgr.ini in new version of YM.. what to do now?

- 23 July 2010 at 10:01 AM

raz said:

what version of yahoo messenger does have the ymsgr.ini file? or is it possible to make the file beyond later version?

- 24 July 2010 at 9:52 AM

sid said:

not find the file ymsgr.ini

- 24 July 2010 at 2:42 PM

shafi said:

Hello
This is shafi it is very good sit that i have ever seen.

- 8 August 2010 at 6:22 PM

Nikx said:

LoL this trick used to only work on OLD versions

New versions 9 & 10 Dont Have ymsgr.ini File

So Just Install 6, 7 ,8 Or Wtv And Than Try You LL Be Able To Do

Please update POST

Thankyou

- 19 August 2010 at 1:31 PM

Abbadon Czernobog said:

this article is nice…
no wonder, you are really good!

- 19 August 2011 at 9:44 AM

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